well govt also have a 20% paid cut mah, let be objective here, keep
talking about their paid and all these is not going to solve any of
your problem, poor or rich in any society, there must be, if you
belong to the rich, you want to be more rich, if you belong poor,
you keep blaming the rich, that is life. But no matter how you go
about it, blaming here and there, biting bullet or swallowing it is
not going to shift your status from poor to rich, set your
direction and dream, what you want to be in 10 years time, then
move toward it, if you think you want to be rich, you can achieve
it, but if you keep talking about other getting rich thru high paid
and all these nonsense, you will be doing the same thing 10 years
from now, by then the rich will be richer and you may be deem more
poorer.
By the way, our poors are same level as many other countries
middle class ya. Some countries poor are really poor until living
in slam with dogs. So, what is poor in Singapore??
Business is business, personal is personal, you got to have that
professionalism to understand it. In economy sense, business is an
entity by itself, a living system that churn profits, me is me, if
i wanted to buy the whole of Singapore pubs and yet want a pay cut
on my staff paid, so be it, but i got to be justify it before doing
it, and if i go buy a ferrari for myself, that is nothing to do
with my business pay cut.
Because peoples in Singapore are too red eyes to see other enjoy
their fruit of success, they tend to harbour an inferior anger that
is hard to release. If people wants of buy what, that is people
problem, if an employee of mine drive a ferrari in, I also do
nothing and go on as usual.
Some people might be capable and with some luck,
they probably can achieve something for themselves, a better
life even if not filthy rich.
For majority of the people however, they are just
average joes wanting to lead a stable life. But look at the
living standards now and the reducing job securities with so many
"cheaper, better & faster" foreigners. Trust me that most
employers look at the first criteria first.
If you dun realized that lives are indeed getting harder and
harder for them due to the many govt policies now, you are
probably living in your own ivory towers also like
those MIW.
Dun compare to those worse off countries like wat the people on
top like to do, for wat?! Anything to their favour, they will
say compare this compare that. When you talk abt their salaries,
they will say we dun compare ourselves to others haha.
Joke.
If you want to compare, compare with our own people in the late
80s to 90s. People's salaries at that time might be a bit
lower (Note: A BIT) than now, but those are the times when
people really can see themselves retiring with their CPF money.
They can pay their housing loans in full in 10 yrs, and those
money accumulated in their CPF after that are truely retirement
money!
But now, you probably dun even live to get back half of
wat's remaining in your CPF, if any, with the never-ending
increment of the withdrawal age. And stop those
bullsh*ts that HDB flats are heavily subsidized when we
know they're not.
For the example of your business part, you
are not wrong to say that it's your right to buy a
ferrari even if you cut your employees' pay. What I want to mean is
that you try doing that and see whether they will still sit
down and "listen" properly to your words after that,
or will they treat watever you said as bullsh*t from that
point onwards. It is precisely the same kind of
insensitive "so be it" attitude that angers many people
now. Business is business, but are the govt running a business
(Yes, actually they are) or leading a country now?
You cannot blame people for repeating the ministers' pay saga
because watever they said are just not convincing as
compared to wat they are doing.
